Improvement in yarn-guides for spooling-machines



G. DRAPER.

YIJHLCHZIIDES- FOR SPOOLING-MACHINE- y11a-mma Aug. 2z, 187s.:

UNITED ASfrrirES PATENT' EEIGE GEORGE DEAPEE, 0E HOPEDALE,MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN YARN-G UIDES FOR SPOOLING-MACHINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1S l ,321, dated August`22, 1876; application filed June 28, 1876.

To all whom it may concern: A

Be it known that I, GEORGE DRAPER, of

Hopedale, of the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in mechanism having reference tothe Yarn-Guides of Spooling-Machines 5 and do hereby declare the same tobe fully described in the following speciication, and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure l isa rear elevation, Fig. 2 atop view, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal Section, of a series of adjustablejawed guides and their detachable, ilexile, or elastic conductors, allmade and arranged in accordance with my invention.

Y The jawed guides represented at A A A, with the exception of theircompound sockets hereinafter described, are of a kind in common use,they beingapplied to a Support-bar, B, so as to be adjustable verticallytherein and relatively thereto. Each guide has a pair of recessed jaws,a a, that are hinged together at their lower parts and to the head of asustaining-screw, b, which goes through the support-bar, andis heldthereto by clampnuts c d, arranged as shown. One of the jaws only ofeach pair is to turn on their pivot or joint pin e, such pair havingtheir heads chambered, as shown at h h, and furnished with anadjusting-screw, f, and` a clamp or set-nut, g, thereto, all being asrepresented. By revolving the adjustingscrew one way one jaw will becaused to recede from the other. So, b v turning the screw the oppositeway the movable jaw will be made to approach the stationary jaw. A smallhook or arm, i, extending from the movable jaw, and arranged in itschamber, servesl to catch the yarn and hold it from being drawn upwardand from between the jaws.

In carrying out my invention I provide the series of jawed guides A A Awith a series of detachable, lexile, or elastic arched conductors orbridges, C C, extending from one to the other, as represented.

Fig. 41s a side view of one of the said conductors, which is a piece ofwire, bowed, as shown at 7c ak, and bent near each extremity twice, inmanner as represented at k and Z in said Fig. 4.

To receive two of the conductors, the jaws a a `.are provided withsuitable sockets, each being composed of a vertical recess or notch, n',and a horizontal recess or notch, P, leading therefrom, all beingarranged in the jaws in manner as shown in Fig. 5, which is a top view,and in Fig. 6, which is a side view, and in Fig. 7, which is a verticalsection, of a pair lof the jaws, without the conductors. The part lc lmof the conductor, by entering the compound socket n p, serves therewithnot only to keep the conductor in its normal po- Sition, but from beingaccidentally thrown upward out of the socket.

From the above it will be seen that each of the conductors can be easilysprung out of or into its Sockets in order to admit of either of theguides being removed from their support-bar without disturbing the rest,or of being turned in said bar for convenience of getting ready accessto the adjusting-screw and clamp-nut.

The elasticity or lexibility of the conductors allow of their easyadaptation to the jaws, as well as of the adjustingv of each pair of thelatter to different distances asunder, a occasion may require.

I do not claim the combination of a notched and grooved glass guidewiththe wire conductors, extending through its notches and rivited to anadjustable plate, fixed by screws to a traverse bar, all being as shownin the specication and drawings of United States Patent No. 134,888.

Instead of said glass plate I have jaws in which one is adjustable withreference to the other; and, besides, I have no adjustable plate towhich the conductors are fastened,

and by which they and a glass guide are supported and adjusted.

The object of each conductor is to support the yarn and guide it to andbetween the pair of jaws.

With spooler guides, having adjustable jaws and adjusting mechanismthereto, as described, the great advantage of having them socketed, andalso of having the conductors separately movable, will be readily seen.

I claim- 1. The combination of the series of adjustable-jawedSpooling-guides A with the series of removable arched `wire-conductorsC, arends, as shown at k l, in combination with ranged with and appliedto such guides, subthe jawed guides A, substantially asspecistantiailyas specified. fled.

2. The jawed guide A having to each or either of its jaws, a compoundsocket, n p, as GEORGE DRAPER' described, for the reception of aconductor, as Witnesses: explained. E. D. BANOROFT,

3. The arched conductors C, bent near their FRANK J. DUTCHER.

